NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered a planet that orbits two suns, just like Luke Skywalker's homeworld of Tatooine. Luke Westaway Senior editor Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...

Kepler-16b orbits it's two stars. NASA's Kepler Mission discovered the world orbiting two Stars, the larger a K dwarf and the smaller a red dwarf. (Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle via Getty Images) ...

In news that conjures up visions of Luke Skywalker looking wistfully at the twin sunset of Tatooine accompanied by a stirring John Williams score, NASA's Kepler mission has detected the first planet ...

Scientists have spotted a real-life Tatooine — a world with two suns, like Luke Skywalker's home planet in the "Star Wars" films — and you should be able to see this alien star system, too, using a ...

It’s not Tatooine, but it’s kinda close. More like an Ohann or Adriana. Those are fictional gas giants orbiting the binary suns Tatoo I and II in Star Wars, the stars made famous by Luke Skywalker ...

A study on the latest observations of the planet titled "BEBOP III. Observations and an independent mass measurement of Kepler-16 (AB) b - the first circumbinary planet detected with radial velocities ...

Scientists have spotted a real-life Tatooine -- a world with two suns, like Luke Skywalker's home planet in the "Star Wars" films -- and you should be able to see this alien star system, too, using a ...

If there’s a bright center to the Universe, astronomers have found the planet it’s farthest from. Called Kepler-16b, it’s a Saturn-like world which has the distinction of being the first discovered to ...

An artist's rendition of Kepler, on the hunt for planets like our own. NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T Pyle Recently, after four years of training the Kepler Space Telescope on 150,000 distant stars, NASA ...

Although cold and gaseous rather than a desert world, the newfound planet Kepler-16b is still the closest astronomers have come to discovering Luke Skywalker's home world of Tatooine. Like Tatooine, ...